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James Baldwin
Harlem, New York, USA
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspo…
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James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
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2025
The New Yorker at 100
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
James Baldwin Abroad
Movie Self
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2022
Brother, Where Are You?
Movie Original Story
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2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Madonna: Madame X
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2021
i ran from it and was still in it
Movie Self (voice) (archive footage)
- 2020
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2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
Movie Novel
- 2018
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2018
Explained
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2018
Mr. SOUL!
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
I Am Not Your Negro
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
The Madding Crowd
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
Movie Self (archive footage)
More credits
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2013
Off-White Tulips
Movie Self
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2011
Public Speaking
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2003
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1998
Where the Heart Is
Movie Original Film Writer
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1992
Malcolm X
Movie Screenplay
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1992
Toc Storee
Movie Novel
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1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
The Statue of Liberty
Movie Self - Writer
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1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Movie Novel
- 1982
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Novel
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1981
I Remember Harlem
TV show self
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1978
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
Movie Himself
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1973
James Baldwin: From Another Place
Movie Self
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1971
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Movie Self
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1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1968
SOUL!
TV show
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1968
Baldwin's Nigger
Movie Self
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1965
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
Movie Self
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1964
Take This Hammer
Movie Self
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1963
World in Action
TV show
- 1963
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1962
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
Movie Self
